1. Katharine Cameron RWS RE was a Scottish artist, watercolourist, and printmaker, best known for her paintings and etchings of flowers.
12 Facts About Katharine Cameron
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Katharine Cameron was associated with the group of artists known as the Glasgow Girls.
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Katharine Cameron studied at the Glasgow School of Art, from 1889 to 1893 where she became associated with a small circle of female students who called themselves 'The Immortals'.
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One of the Glasgow Girls, Katharine Cameron worked in the Glasgow Style, which blended Art Nouveau, Celtic Revival, Arts and Crafts movement, and Japonisme aesthetics.
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Katharine Cameron illustrated a series of three fairytale books for the Jacks, which earned majority positive feedback from her artistic contemporaries.
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Katharine Cameron was a prolific watercolourist and this eventually became her predominant medium of choice throughout her career.
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Katharine Cameron exhibited widely, and at the age of 22 she had already been elected to the Royal Scottish Watercolour Society.
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Katharine Cameron produced landscapes and regularly exhibited these alongside her flower studies and still life pictures.
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Katharine Cameron's landscapes were lavish in colour and she particularly liked to capture the changing light.
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Katharine Cameron fills each painting with a pervasive light, a light other than that which actually illuminates her flowers.
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Katharine Cameron's first was in 1891 at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, where she exhibited 'September Flowers'.
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Katharine Cameron's work is represented in a number of public collections, including.